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Well, the Olympic Games are over, but I can’t get skier Bode Miller out of my head. “Mom, I think you have a crush on that guy,” said one of the impish Chattering boys. “No, no, that’s not it,” I protested. (I didn’t volunteer that I HAD seen a photo of Miller shirtless, and that…

Excerpts from a nice interview with Richard Gere on why he thinks we should all care more about Africa and AIDS aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” If you missed it, you can catch it here.

In case you missed it, renowned Buddhist authority, spiritual activist, and Beliefnet.com columnist Lama Surya Das was on “The Colbert Report” with Stephen Colbert earlier this week. True, his holiness the Dalai Lama has appeared on both Barbara Walters’s and Larry King’s programs, but Lama Surya Das’s courageous interaction with the mischievous Colbert is something…

“What I now realize, from my study of the different religious traditions, is that a disciplined attempt to go beyond the ego brings about a state of ecstasy. Indeed, it is in itself ekstasis. Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, or self-emptying,…
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